Ex parte Michael Troy Majors PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Michael Troy Majors v. State of Alabama) (Walker Circuit Court: CC-20-900031 Criminal Appeals: CR-2023-0228).

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• recognizing that the government’s inability to control the source of persecution may support a finding of a well-founded fear
• holding that the fact that “financial considerations may account for” Russia’s inability to prevent persecution “does not matter”
• holding that where an applicant has shown that he or she would be singled out individually for persecution, there is no need to show systematic persecution
• holding that petitioner’s inability to find work, incident where petitioner was pushed by police, and rape of Armenian Mend did not rise to the level of persecution
• holding that an applicant who is a member of a disfavored group, i.e. a group that is subject to systematic mistreatment, can establish eligibility for asylum without making the same showing he would have to make were he from a group that did not suffer such systematic mistreatment
• describing that under the substantial evidence standard, a petitioner “must establish that the evidence not only supports [a] conclusion” contrary to the BIA’s determination, “but compels it”

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